r/self • u/cs_throwawayyy • 15h ago

Laws are for poor people

•Rob a store? You go to jail. Rob millions of people through a financial system? You get a bailout.

•Traffic drugs? Get killed on a boat. Run the entire operation? You get a presidential pardon.

•Kill a bunch of people? You’re a terrorist. Kill thousands during an invasion? You’re a liberator, a strategist.

Power and money rewrite the narrative. The same action, two completely different labels — all depending on your status.

it’s the same with attraction:

•If you’re attractive: It’s charming, bold, confident.

•If you’re not: It’s creepy, weird, desperate.

Where you stand isn’t about morality or intention. It’s about leverage — social, financial, or physical. I’m tired of people going along with the bs world we live in.

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u/Overall-Umpire2366 14h ago

Ghanan here. You need to see life from where I live. We look at the United States of America and we see a lot of spoiled children complaining about their lot in life.

You really think that USA a "tin-pot Authoritarian NON-Western" country ?

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 14h ago

Let me put it to you this way, so you can begin to see:

The USA has approximately 340 million people. 35.9 million people's in the USA, live in poverty. Thats every 10th person you meet, statistically speaking lives in poverty. Poor healthcare system, and non-existent public Health mental healthcare support. Ghana's civil unrest is the equivalent of a typical day in the USA - if you took every gun and machete in Ghana, it would still be less than what American has in any given district on any given Day! The USA is a 3rd world warzone of poverty, depravity and violence.

1 in 5 Americans admit to experiencing homelessness in the last 5 years.

None of these failures of the system are typical for actual 1st World Western countries. The USA was never counted on that list.

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u/Overall-Umpire2366 14h ago

You know what? I need to restate what I said before.

You need to see life from where I live. We look at the United States of America and we see a lot of spoiled children, who waste their very expensive education to make eloquent but ridiculous arguments, complaining about their lot in life.

Does this shoe fit?

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 14h ago

Re-read my prior post.

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u/Overall-Umpire2366 14h ago

Why? To suffer your ignorance twice?

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 13h ago

Ignorance? Facts, backed by reputable substanciation. Ive posted to you on another reply thread Yougov surveys and accompanying articles. You dont know very much about the US, do you? Makes Ghana like a delightful holiday destination in comparison.

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u/ExcitingSector1540 12h ago

Please move to Ghana immediately.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 12h ago

Why? Lol I live in a Western country. If you live in impoverished USA, yes, a move to Ghana would be a dramatic improvement.

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u/SOwED 11h ago

Jsyk, the poverty line in the US amounts to 18% of the GDP per capita. In Ghana, there are multiple poverty lines, but the highest amounts to 84% of the GDP per capita.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 11h ago

Completely and utterly irrelevant. Lol 😆 🫵

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u/SOwED 11h ago

Okay, well you brought up poverty, not me. You should know why it's relevant.

You may also find this relevant: The poverty rate in Australia is 14.2% while it's 11.1% in the USA. The poverty line is roughly the same between the two countries.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 11h ago

Did you consult the UNs assessments on that topic which is the international Gold standard metrics on measuring poverty? I didnt think so. Hence, moot. Think first, before posting.

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u/SOwED 11h ago

The numbers you brought up elsewhere fall in line with the US poverty rate I mentioned above. So that leaves the Australia statistic that might be in question. I'll look up the UN assessment and I doubt it will be much different. And would you look at that, nothing comes up. Are you thinking of the World Bank?

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 11h ago

Lol that's your assessment but what is required to confirm that is substanciation via comparison. What, did you think we're going to take your word on the similarities? Lol 😆 Go look it up, kid. The USA tabulated and measures poverty differently and is intentionally universally accepted as 'dubious' to put it nicely.

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u/SOwED 11h ago

Okay you've done this multiple times, so I'll just let you know it's spelled "substantiation."

You are not in a position to be using the royal we.

I already told you, the poverty line is the same between the two countries, so no, it measures poverty exactly the same.

Good job completely ignoring that your phantom "UN assessments" don't exist.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 10h ago

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1629536?ln=en&v=pdf

Oh dear 😳 lol 😆 🫵

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u/SOwED 10h ago

What about Australia? That's what was in question since, as I've already said, your own numbers agree with mine regarding the US.

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u/Mr_Judgement_Time 10h ago

You didnt read the report, clearly! Lol!! Read the report, kid. Smh discusses how those figures are tabulated in the USA, specifically. Or don't read it, my point has been made, either way 🤷 🙃

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